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Most Enterprises Intend to Skip Vista All Together: Survey

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A survey conducted by Ziff Davis Enterprise Research has revealed that 72% of the enterprises plan to abstain from Windows Vista despite the release of Service Pack 1. This comes at a time when most analysts expect enterprises to adopt Vista en masse.

Vista almost seems to be an anathema, for about 3/4th of the enterprises are so unequivocal in their dislike for Vista that they don’t even intend to adopt the OS three years down the line. Around 28% envisage a move to the OS anywhere between late 2008 and 2010. Half of those surveyed are not fazed by the end of XP’s retail sales and OEM distribution.

Lesson for Microsoft:
The Mojave Experiment hasn’t been able to fool incredulous enterprises and it's time that MS devoted more time to addressing Vista’s glaring performance issues. Address their grievances, the tide will surely turn.

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avatarI think our own survey here

in the comments section, though very crude, also suggests that Vista is not worth it for enterprises.

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avatarThe release of Vista wasn't

The release of Vista wasn't even a blip in my company, but when the end of XP was announced and Office 2007 came with a new incompatible file format that was all the encouragement my company needed to finally make the switch to Linux. There are a few hold outs who are refusing to change, but compatibility between them and all the Linux desktops hasn't been an issue thanks to a great IT department. I even have my favorite FPS games running for after hours fun.

There is only 1 application used by accounting that won't run locally, so they all got terminal server logins to the last Windows server that remains and they run it remotely. I don't know if it was the release of Vista, the end of XP, or the rediculous Office 2007 file format, but somewhere in there Microsoft finally jumped the shark.

 

 

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avatarMost enterprise are using XP

As is the corp that I work for.  We are scheduled to get new laptops in a month, all of my team were dreading minimum spec'd machines with vista.  Luckily a few in the IT dept feel the same way I do about Vista, and they will not support it.  So it's min specs, but with XP :).

 They also said that they will make the jump from XP when Win 7 materializes.

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avatarOnce I read

that a company moved to XP from 2000 but kept the 128mb RAM. Just maybe, they don't want to upgrade to 2gb just to run the OS?

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avatarEnterprises aren't adopting because

Vista is not being deployed in the enterprise market because MS went and created a consumer OS and did not create a need for business to migrate to VISTA.  The best reasons for for businesses to adopt VISTA is NAC/NAP, Better control over the OS with group policies and better security out of the box compared to xp. When released IT admins really could not use VISTA to perform administrative tasks within the domain we had to remote to another server or an XP box to do the job we used to be able to do locally.  To use the NAC and better group policies windows server 2008 ADDS has to be used, guess what WS08 was not released yet. So Vista did not get deployed, the employees did not use VISTA, and did not want it, and did not buy vista for home. 

Vista should be installed like WS08, in 15 minutes its done. You have a GUI and then you turn on services needed run the machine.

DirectX 10 was a failure so what use is the os?

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avatarCorp.IT has no need at all

Corp.IT has no need at all to use Vista. It can't do anything in the workplace that XP can't so why spend the money and waste the time on it.

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avatarI like vista

I actually like vista, much like when XP came out it takes a little tweaking but I like the look it runs well on my rig and all my hardware works.

but I don't think i'd roll it out on an enterprise scale

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avatarJust what are the glaring

Just what are the glaring performance issues?

I know that bloat is a big part of Windows, that the OS installs components users may not need without an easy way to remove or disable them. For gaming, Windows only offers to cripple the performance of any PC with layer upon layer of innefficiency. If only Windows could "turn itself down" a bit to allow PCs to run at their full potential when used for games. As it is, you need twice the computing power to get the same experiece as a cheap XBox 360. 

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avatarGaming Mode

It wouls be cool if there was a gaming mode that shut down unnesesary services and defrags and optimizations and let games run fast.

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avatarToo bad you did not realise,

Too bad you did not realise, that when you start a game that Windows recognizes, it sets the graphic settings to bare minimum.

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avatararen't most of these

aren't most of these enterprises still using 2000?

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avatarNo, not really.

The last desktop IT shop I worked in switched to XP in early 2006. I know a few people still working in that business for medium-sized companies, and they all migrated to XP quite awhile ago.

I'm sure there are still plenty of Win2K holdouts, but the big shops often go for a volume licensing agreements with automatic upgrades built into the price these days. The only barrier to switching operating systems is technical, and migrating from 2000 to XP on the desktop generally isn't all that traumatic from a technical standpoint.

 

 

 

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